he creation of Peers.

What though now opposed I be?
Twenty Peers shall carry me.
If twenty won't, thirty will,
For I'm his Majesty's bouncing Bill.

Sir Robert Peel has been extremely complimentary to him. One sentence
he repeated to us: 'My only feeling towards that gentleman is a not
ungenerous envy, as I listened to that wonderful flow of natural and
beautiful language, and to that utterance which, rapid as it is, seems
scarcely able to convey its rich freight of thought and fancy!' People
say that these words were evidently carefully prepared.

"I have just been looking round our little drawing-room, as if trying to
impress every inch of it on my memory, and thinking how in future years
it will rise before my mind as the scene of many hours of light-hearted
mirth; how I shall again see him, lolling indolently on the old blue
sofa, or strolling round the narrow confines of our room. With such
a scene will come the remembrance of his beaming countenance, happy
affectionate smile, and joyous laugh; while, with everyone at ease
around him, he poured out the stores of his full mind in his own
peculiarly beautiful and expressive language, more delightful here than
anywhere else, because more perfectly unconstrained. The name which
passes through this little room in the quiet, gentle tones of sisterly
affection is a name which will be repeated through distant generations,
and go down to posterity linked with eventful times and great deeds."

The last words here quoted will be very generally regarded as the
tribute of a sister's fondness. Many, who readily admit that Macaulay's
name will go down to posterity linked with eventful times and great
deeds, make that admission with reference to times not his own, and
deeds in which he had no part except to commemorate them with his pen.
To him, as to others, a great reputation of a special order brought with
it the consequence that the credit, which he deserved for what he had
done well, was overshadowed by the renown of what he did best. The
world, which has forgotten that Newton excelled as an administrator, and
Voltaire as a man of business, remembers somewhat faintly that Macaulay
was an eminent orator and, for a time at least, a strenuous politician.
The universal voice of his contemporaries, during the first three years
of his parliamentary career, testifies to the leading part which he
played in the House of Commons, so long as with all his heart he cared,
and wi